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Goods for the world. European Theme Route Manufacturing
Domestic handmade textile production was typical for the pre-industrial age. The father sat at the loom and the women of the family were responsible for spinning the yarn. An entrepreneur (in Germany he was called a "Verleger") delivered the raw material and organised sales, often over considerable distances. Textile manufacture was the leading industry in Europe: from the 16th century onwards it was basically organised on such a system. The first types of factories grew up in the 17th century, when larger groups of workers were concentrated in so-called "manufactories".
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Berlin | Sugar Museum |
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Amrumer Strasse 32 | 13353 Berlin | Germany |
| The sugar industry has for centuries been important in Berlin. Andreas Sigismund Margraff (1709-82) discovered in the city how to extract sugar from beet in 1747, and research and training laboratorie... more >> |
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Berlin | German Technical Museum |
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Trebbiner Strasse 9 | 10963 Berlin | Germany |
| The German Technical Museum holds one of the largest collections of its kind in Europe, but dates only from 1982. It was initially a museum of railways, and is based at the former Anhalter Bahnhof, on... more >> |
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Birmingham | Jewellery Quarter |
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75-79 Vyse StreetHockley | B18 6HA Birmingham | Great Britain |
| What would you say to a walk around a neighbourhood packed with rows of jewellery shops famous for their treasures, of which the neighbourhood itself is one of the finest? A neighbourhood where the wh... more >> |
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Birmingham | The Pen Room Museum |
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The Argent Centre60 Frederick StreetJewellery Quarter | B1 3HS Birmingham | Great Britain |
| Isn’t is astonishing to think that when Boulton and Watt were busily producing steam engines, people were still using feather quill pens to write with? It wasn’t until 1803 that the first steel pe... more >> |
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Birmingham | Soho House |
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Soho Avenue (off Soho Road)Handsworth | B18 5LB Birmingham | Great Britain |
| Something´s not right. You´re in a fine Georgian house surrounded by the furniture and fittings of the 1790s, but there on the wall is a large photograph of the moon. This must be a mistake. But itÂ... more >> |
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Birmingham | Bournville Village & The Bournville Experience |
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Linden RoadBournville | B30 2LU Birmingham | Great Britain |
| George Cadbury was quite a man. He left us two fantastic legacies. No prizes for guessing the first one, but do you know the other? A clue is that to appreciate it fully you need to visit the Birmingh... more >> |
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Bitola | NI Institute and Museum |
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Kliment Ohridsti Street bb | 7000 Bitola | Macedonia (FYROM) |
| Bitola (formerly Monastir) is a large and ancient city on the edge of the Pelagonian plain with a current population of about 75,000. It was part of the Ottoman Empire between 1382 and 1912, and suffe... more >> |
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Bitterfeld | Industry and Filmmuseum |
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Bunsenstr. 4 | 06766 Bitterfeld | Germany |
| "Women Make Better Diplomats", starring Marika Rökk, was the title of a costume movie made in 1941, that was hugely popular in Germany in the middle of the Second World War. But the real star of this... more >> |
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Blaenau Ffestiniog | Llechwedd Slate Caverns |
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LL41 3NB Blaenau Ffestiniog | Great Britain |
| The landscape around Blaenau Ffestioniog is dominated by the legacy of slate extraction, by the bare rock faces of quarries and by towering heaps of slate scree. Slate from Blaenau was used to roof bu... more >> |
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Bologna | Museum of Industrial Heritage |
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Fornace GalottiVia della Beverara 123 | 40131 Bologna | Italy |
| Bologna is one of Italy’s principal industrial cities, and has also been a major centre for the study of industrial archaeology. The Aldini-Valeriani Museum and the University of Bologna collaborate... more >> |
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Bolton | Bolton Museum, Aquarium and Archive |
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Le Mans Crescent | BL1 1SE Bolton | Great Britain |
| The textile machinery collection is an extremely important one. The museum began collecting textile machines in the 19th century and amongst the items at the heart of this collection is the only survi... more >> |
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Boom | Ecomuseum and archives of the Boom brickmaking region |
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Noeveren 196 | 2850 Boom | Belgium |
| Boom, in the Rupel valley, 15 km south of Antwerp, was the centre of the principal brick-making area in Belgium, which, in 1900, was producing 1,000,000,000 bricks a year, using coal from the Charlero... more >> |
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Braintree, Essex | Braintree Museum |
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Manor Street | CM7 3YG Braintree, Essex | Great Britain |
| Braintree was the home town of two companies famous in the 19th and 20th centuries; Courtaulds and Crittalls Windows. The Museum is the focus for this distinguished industrial heritage in both textile... more >> |
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Braunsbedra | Pfännerhall Central Workshop |
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Grubenweg 4 | 06242 Braunsbedra | Germany |
| Slender, pointed gable windows and a rosette in the middle of the red brick facade make the Pfännerhall central workshop look more like the outside of a church. But once inside it is patently clear t... more >> |
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Brescia | The Eugene Battisti Museum of Industry and Labour |
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Via Cairoli 9 | 25122 Brescia | Italy |
| The museum of industry and labour in Brescia takes its name from Eugeni Battisti (1924-89), the historian of architecture who taught at universities in Italy and the United States, who was the biograp... more >> |
